key: cord-0783515-z6h4ufme
authors: Amicucci, Matteo; Canesi, Marta; Rostagno, Elena; Bergadano, Anna; Badino, Clara; Botta, Debora; Fenicia, Diana; Longo, Antonella; Macchi, Simone; Ricciardi, Celeste; Partel, Moreno Crotti
title: COVID-19 containment measures adopted by AIEOP centres to prevent the virus spread among healthcare providers
date: 2020-06-20
journal: Eur J Oncol Nurs
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejon.2020.101791
sha: d84f944d8f4ef92a8eb3060e06d382e867a411b5
doc_id: 783515
cord_uid: z6h4ufme

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Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a new virus that has spread rapidly worldwide. Italy has been heavily affected by this pandemic (Lambertini et al., 2020) . Cancer patients who contract COVID-19 infection seem to be at a major risk to severe illness and poor prognosis (Kotecha, 2020) . Although children seem less vulnerable to the disease, they are not immune. The showing what measures are adopted to prevent the spread of the virus among the operators of the AIEOP centres also considering what is reported in the national AIEOP press release ( Table 1) .

[ Table 1 here]

All the implemented measures are consistent with the AIEOP national recommendations.

Sixty-six percent of the responding centres reported a shortage of PPE and difficult supply:

this was reported about masks (FFP3 66.7%; FFP2 55.6%, surgical 47.2%) and alcohol-hand rub (52.8%). Interestingly, the main of the sample (83.3%) felt safe in its own work environment and considered its work conditions good enough. The rest of the responders (16.7 %) did not answer the question. Staff absenteeism has been analysed and only 16.6% of the responders registered an increased rate: this was related to providers' illness, the need to care for a relative, fear, lack of transportation to get the workplace. Others (e.g. serological tests) 4 11.1 * multi-response questions

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